Despite crossing the Atlantic aboard a vampire-infested ship, Alice Davison has managed to safely arrive in New York. However, when she and her family are unwillingly settled in a decaying lodging house in Five Points, the most perilous slum in 19th-century America, she discovers that the danger has just begun. Disastrously, only three days before they are scheduled to sail from New York to Galveston, her father goes missing, and Alice is the only one who can search for him. In this nail-biting sequel to The Birdcatcher, Artemis Rising details Alice's ongoing adventures against an undead force that is more insidious, and organized, than she would have ever guessed. As if these challenges aren't enough, she must also navigate her budding relationship with Sir Henry Falkner in this new, frightening world.